Comment by sieve

Any language that uses error codes instead of exceptions is a non-starter for me. Produces code that craps all over the happy path.

Python has a different problem: it is slow as f---. I did a micro benchmark comparison against 5 other languages in preparation for my python replacement language. Outside of dictionary lookups, it is 50-600 times slower than C depending on the workload.

Go, Rust etc are fine. They land at 1.25-3x slower than C. But I prefer the readability of python minus its dynamic nature.